Jenny Zhang Quotes
Chinese people of my parents' generation who lived through the Cultural Revolution knew so much of death at such a young age, and the psychic toll those experiences left was immense. I knew the stories of the Cultural Revolution before knowing what the Cultural Revolution was.
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The beauty of soaps is that it takes a village to make it work, and you get to work with really hardworking people.
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People believe what they want to believe.
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The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.
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Some people really like to get into Twitter, but it's not my thing.
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But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws in this country. We are neither morally nor legally confined to those laws. Those laws that keep them up, keep us down.
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I never set out to become 'famous.' I mean, when you're 14 you think 'I'm gonna become a writer and people will want my autograph and that'll be cool,' but you grow up and you learn that's just not how the world works. I resigned myself to the fact that I would probably never be published and if I did it probably wouldn't be a big deal.
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I'm so sick of people misunderstanding Asians in America and what we're about.
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Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.
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The reader is going to imprint on the characters he sees first. He is going to expect to see these people often, to have them figure largely into the story, possibly to care about them. Usually, this will be the protagonist.
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In my flat in Chicago, I've got this big room with an office in the corner and a balcony so I can watch people go by.
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The people you surround yourself with influence your behaviors, so choose friends who have healthy habits.
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We have the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. 'America, land of liberty and freedom?' You know, that's baloney. More than 2 million Americans are behind bars now. Communist China has four times the population and they have 1.5 million people behind bars.
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My parents never talked to me like I was a kid. Maybe that's why I've been seen as mature.
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I don't like getting people upset, so that's not my goal. But I like putting people in situations where how they respond says a lot about them.
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Traditionally with debut albums, labels insist on a face, so people know who you are.
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I was scared, because I knew that in the political arena, you have to satisfy so many different types of people at once, and I wasn't sure that I could speak for everybody and be politically correct.
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You know, the polls show that 70 percent of the people are for stem-cell research.
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I'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people's lives.
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Acting-wise, I've had all these experiences. Yet when I look at certain people whose careers I admire, they've gotten to play so many different characters.
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I'm a night owl.
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As far as sleeping goes, you're up and ready to go at six in the morning. Spring training was always a combination of relaxing and working, and I missed that quite a bit. I missed being around the ball field. A baseball. A bat. The smell of the uniform, you might say. Talking baseball. Seeing opponents as well as the Cubs.
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As I got older though I wanted a life of my own. The classical training was very demanding and thorough. It was a very sheltered existence. Even though I heard blues and gospel on the radio sometimes, it was always back to the piano and study and give recitals.
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What actor do you really take seriously who becomes a singer? It's kind of ridiculous. I can't think of anybody.
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Chinese people of my parents' generation who lived through the Cultural Revolution knew so much of death at such a young age, and the psychic toll those experiences left was immense. I knew the stories of the Cultural Revolution before knowing what the Cultural Revolution was.
